in Firenze since 1980

Fausto Cangelosi bow maker

Thank you for visiting my newly updated website.

The site shows a fresh new look and structure, and many more pictures --displayed at the bottom of this page-- are available for you to enjoy. I will try to update the gallery on a regular basis as new pictures will become available.

These pages are a short introduction to my work,
therefore the information provided is the bare essentials.
Please feel free to contact me and ask for more details.

The bows that I make are modelled after early bows or well known typologies,
and are built with extreme care using top quality materials.
The wood used are the traditional ones, above all "snakewood". European wood is used to build Renaissance bows.

Some bows can be made with different mechanisms: "button and screw", "clip-in frog" or "rack track". Not the "hystorical rack track" which is unconfortable to use and doesn't help the improvement of the sound but a rack track that I've produced in the beginning of the 1990's that offers the sound quality typical of the "clip-in frog" bow merged with the possibility to regulate the horsehair tension.

Here are some pictures of my most recent work. Click on a thumbnail to enjoy a full-size view, each zoomed image contains also a brief description of the displayed bow.Tip: to navigate from one zoomed image to the next (or previous), click on the upper left/right corner of the picture; the same effect can be achieved using the left/right arrow keys.